Contents
Publisher’s Note
Introduction: Hope Is One Foot in Front of the Other | B. J. Hollars
Hope Is Purple | Jim Alf
Hope Is Revelations | Abayomi Animashaun
Hope Is What’s Just Beyond Hopelessness | Jerry Apps
Hope Is the Thing in Hell, Michigan | Jodie Arnold
Hope Is a Dog Named Igor | Sharon Auberle
Hope Is a Wormhole in the Universe | Laura Jean Baker
Hope Is the Thing That Grows |Meredith Ball
Hope Is Somewhere in the Treble Clef | Aviroop Basu
Hope Is the Perfect Round Roti | Lopamudra Basu
Hope Is a Verb | Emily Bertholf
Hope Is in the Dancing: Ikwe-niimi’idiwin | Kimberly Blaeser
Hope Is the Thing That Breathes | Peggy Blomenberg
Hope Is the Hours before Redemption | Tim Brennan
Hope Is the Last of the Warmth | Ryan Browne
Hope Is a Dangerous Thing | Nickolas Butler
Hope Is the Earth Without Us | Brenda Cárdenas
Hope Is the Miracle Inside Poets | Fabu Phillis Carter
Hope Is a Three-Pronged Fork | Justin Carter
Hope Is a Lost Peanut Floating Down the Kickapoo | Matt Cashion
Hope Is the Next Mile | Erin Celello
Hope Is Not Truth | Dorothy Chan
Hope Is Wildfire | Dekila Chungyalpa
Hope Is a Thing with a Spine | Christina Clancy
Hope Is a 3–0 Fastball | Louis V. Clark III
Hope Is Our Young Sons | Cathryn Cofell
Hope Is What I Wrestle With | Alea Cross
Hope Is the Mantis Eating Her Lover Mid-Sex-Act | Nick Demske
Hope Is Constellation | Bruce Dethlefsen
Hope Is the Thing We Carry within the Trunks of Trees | Connor Drexler
Hope Is a Homemade Tortilla: A Children’s Story | Araceli Esparza
Hope Is Graffitied Boxcars | Jennifer Fandel
Hope Is the Birth Plan | Stephanie Farrar
Hope Is in the Asparagus Patch | Chris Fink
Hope Is Breath | Susan Firer
Hope Is Nearly Nothing | Max Garland
Hope Is the Thing Holding Us Back | Jay Gilbertson
Hope Is Flat, Thin, Light, a Sign | Susan Gloss
Hope Is Pursuit of the Perfect Swing | Neal Griffin
Hope Is a Dad Dance | Matthew Guenette
Hope Is a Dark Flock Rising | Nicholas Gulig
Hope Is an Embrace | Katy Hackworthy
Hope Is Conditional | David Hadbawnik
Hope Is a View from the Bridge | John Hildebrand
Hope Is a Hard Reboot | Luong Huynh
Hope Is a Magic Pillow | Sarah Jayne Johnson
Hope Is the Thing in Between | Kendall Kartaly
Hope Is a Good Night Message over Microsoft Teams | Emily Kassera
Hope Is a Bruise | Dasha Kelly Hamilton
Hope Is an Old Man with a New Guitar | Dion Kempthorne
Hope Is the Thing That Rarely Acts | Lisa Krawczyk
Hope Is the Thing Penciled in for Sunday Afternoon | Courtney Kueppers
Hope Is the Thing with Red Curls | Charlotte Kupsh
Hope Is That Hidden New Smile | Matthew Larson
Hope Is Still the Thing with Feathers | Estella Lauter
Hope Is the Stars in Alignment | Karen Loeb
Hope Is in the Housework | Allyson Loomis
Hope Is the Thing That Keeps Me from Day Drinking | Jon Loomis
Hope Is the Thing That Pickles | Yia Lor
Hope Is the Thing We Find in the Voids | Dan Lyksett
Hope Is the Trash Can That Shatters a Window | Donte McFadden
Hope Is the Hawaiian Shirt, Hope Is the Ukulele | Rebecca Meacham
Hope Is on the Table | Curt Meine
Hope Is the Thing That Blossoms on Trees Rebecca Mennecke
Hope Is a Four-letter Word | Oscar Mireles
Hope Is a Fishing Boat | Ralph Murre
Hope Is a Dog Whose Paws Twitch When She Dreams Debra Peterson
Hope Is the Thing We Hear Jessi Peterson
Hope Is the Old Man’s Beard | Ty Phelps
Hope Is Tying a Bear to a Porch Chair | Eric Rasmussen
Hope Is the Thing That Keeps Me Awake | Rita Mae Reese
Hope Is the Last Unblemished Banana | Jenna Rindo
Hope Is the Thing with Four Leaves | Scout Roux
Hope Is the Thing That Flies | Margaret Rozga
Hope Is the Work It Takes | Rafael Francisco Salas
Hope Is a Cold Nose | Katherine Schneider
Hope Is This Moment | Tracy Schuldt Helixon
Hope Is the Thing with Thirty-six Questions | Patti See
Hope Is the Thing That Lets Me See Them | Kaia Simon
Hope Is Empathy | Deanna Singh
Hope Is a Humane Crockpot | Abraham Smith
Hope Is Feathers Spreading Angela Sorby
Hope Is the Thing That Coughs Up a Furball | Erin Stevens
Hope Is a Postapocalyptic Nest | Heather Swan
Hope Is the Thing in Quiz Question 7 | Ken Szymanski
Hope Is a Monument Breached | Sahar Mahmoud Taman
Hope Is Another Thing | Bruce Taylor
Hope Is the John Prine Song You’re Thinking Of | Ben Theyerl
Hope Is a Waiting Game | Alex Tronson
Hope Is in the Half Blinks of History | Angie Trudell Vasquez
Hope Is the Thing That Knows | Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Hope Is in the Awakening | Lisa Vihos
Hope Is the Coin Flipped | Angela Voras-Hills
Hope Is the Thing That Endures | Jamie Vue
Hope Is a Thing with Wheels | Larry Watson
Hope Is the Thing Our Hunger Thirsts Upon | Rachel Werner
Hope Is a Hawk Soaring | Peter Whalen
Hope Is a Clear Window | Peter Whitis
Hope Is Never Gone | Jake Wrasse
Hope Is the Thing So Small, You Might Almost Miss It | Karissa Zastrow
Hope Is the Thing I Deliver | Amanda Zieba
Acknowledgments